Designing breeding programmes

About this programme

The course gives the student advanced knowledge in practical animal breeding and good contact with geneticists. 180 credits at first cycle level 7 credits genetics/animal breeding 7,5 credits statistics English 6 The grade requirements within the course grading system are set out in specific criteria. These criteria must be available by the course start at the latest. 180 credits at first cycle level 7 credits genetics/animal breeding 7,5 credits statistics English 6 The course gives the student advanced knowledge in practical animal breeding and good contact with geneticists. The course is characterised by a strong applicability to breeding programmes used in practise. The course gives an overview of the application of the sustainability concept in animal breeding. Examples of lecture topics are breeding objectives, economic weights and genetic evaluation, genomic selection and genetic diversity. The students strengthen their knowledge through group discussions of scientific literature linked to the lectures. In a project that is carried out in groups, the students work with an assessment of a realistic breeding program. The project includes an ethical discussion of the breeding program. The student trains various skills in statistics during the course, to use at examination and in future work. The student trains parameter estimation, genetic evaluation and estimation of genetic progress in computer exercises. Results of the computer exercises are also used in the project. Apart from in the written and the oral examination, compulsory components occur within e. g.